Judge Puts Halt to Trumps Racist Wealth Test, the Public Charge Immigration Rule Amid Covid-19 Pandemic with Brittany Tomas, attorney, Center for Constitution Rights Federal Judge George Daniels issued two nationwide injunctions temporarily blocking the Trump Administrations public charge rules after attorneys successfully argued that the COVID-19 pandemic has made the public charge rules lethal to immigrant communities by chilling the use of healthcare and other benefits. An injunction...
Topics: Trump immigration, public charge rules, immigration corona virus
Mexican Labor Lawyer, Susana Prieto Denounced U.S. Pressure to Reopen Maquiladora Factories. Then She Was Jailed and Now Fears For Her Life! with Susana Prieto, Mexican Labor Lawyer, workers’ rights advocate and now political prisoner whose life and those of her attorneys is in jeopardy Throughout the month of May, as the coronavirus pandemic was peaking in Mexico, Susana Prieto, a top Mexican labor attorney who has been defending workers' rights for over three decades, was making her...
Topics: Trump Mexico, Susana Prieto, Maquiladoras Covid-19
3 Million Strong The National Education Association (NEA) is the largest labor union and professional interest group in the United States and says “No One Should Listen to Trump, DeVos on Reopening Schools”! with Mary Kusler, Senior Director for Advocacy of the NEA Trump let loose with a another of his flurry of hysterical tweets condemning CDC guidance on reopening schools and threatened to withhold funding to schools that don’t reopen for fall, creating more panic for stressed...
Topics: Trump Reopening Schools, National Education Association Trump
Still Not Free.’ A Descendant of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre on President Trump’s Decision to Hold a Rally on Juneteenth Weekend in Tulsa Tiffany T. Crutcher, a native of Tulsa, Okla., is the twin sister of Terence Crutcher, who was shot by a police officer in 2016. The death of her brother compelled Tiffany to speak out against police brutality, particularly the killing of unarmed black men, and she is the founder of the Terence Crutcher Foundation. The foundation’s primary focus is...
Topics: black lives matter, Tulsa, Tiffany Crutcher
From Minneapolis to Stonewall: “It is no exaggeration to describe it as an epidemic of racist violence” Demonstrators representing New York’s Black and Brown, Transgender community protested racial injustice after the death of George Floyd, who died after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes. A crowd shouting “Black Trans Lives Matter" marched and blocked traffic on the major traffic artery of Greenwich Village and then rallied in front of the...
Topics: LGBTQ, black lives matter, George Floyd
Corona Virus Unmasks Capitalism with Dr. Gerald Horne, activist, Prof. of History and African-American studies at the University of Houston and one of the most prolific radical historians writing today From official disregard and denial to mismanaged responses, each day the COVID-19 crisis brings into ever sharpening clarity the hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy of the ruling class and our system of plantation capitalism. Claims of American exceptionalism and greatness are revealed to be a...
Topics: corona virus capitalism, corona virus racism, Gerald Horne
Deportation Contagions: How the Age of COVID-19, Anything Other than Ending Deportations is Disastrous. with Jorge Cullar professor of Latin American, Latino & Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth College reporting from San Salvador Deportations, have been shown to put people in situations of danger and existential risk. Deportees leaving U.S. detention for their home countries face significant challenges as they return to the contexts that prompted their outmigration"of course, after their...
Topics: U.S. deportations, COVID-19 U.S, immigrants, Central America immigration
BUILDING BRIDGES MAY DAY 2020 PROGRAMMING: A SYSTEM IN CRISIS & A WORKING-CLASS VISION FOR THE FUTURE produced by Ken Nash & Mimi Rosenberg We’re Building Bridges with workers of the world to celebrate May Day 2020, by joining labor voices in conversation about how we can build a radical working class response to the current crisis. May Day, International Workers' Day, is a time to honor and celebrate the radical traditions of the labor movement. In the midst of the current...
Topic: May Day 2020
New York nurses’ union sues over state health department, hospitals over equipment shortages – it’s a matter of life and death for health care providers and patients with Judy Sheridan Gonzalez, pres. New York State Nurses Association The New York State Nurses Association filed three lawsuits on Monday over a lack of personal protective equipment and what it considers dangerous guidance issued by the state department of health during the coronavirus pandemic — the first legal action of...
Topics: coronavirus nurses, NYS Nurses Association
Postal workers union leader warns USPS could be dead in three months and “Trump efforts to privatize it are an attack on a legal right of the people.” with Jonathan Smith, the President of the New York Metro Area Postal Union, and a special message from actor/activist Danny Glover We cannot allow Trump to use this horrific pandemic as an opportunity to bankrupt and privatize the Postal Service. Now, more than ever, we need a strong and vibrant postal system to deliver mail 6-days a week....
Topics: post office privatization, post office Trump, Post Office Unions
Building Bridges: Putting People Before Profits: How Cuba Is Responding To The World Health Emergency With International Solidarity with Dr. John Kirk — professor at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, author of “ Healthcare Without Borders” and the world’s leading authority on Cuban Medical Internationalism, recently featured on PBS Nova’s broadcast “Cuba’s Cancer Hope Cuba is putting human needs ahead of profits in the fight against COVID-19....
Topics: coronavirus Cuba, Cuban doctors
How the Poultry Industrys Delayed COVID-19 Response Is Killing Americas Essential Workers with Edgar Fields, former professional football defensive tackle who played for the Atlanta Falcons and the Detroit Lions and now having committed his life to worker organizing in the deep south is Southeast Council President of the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU), which represents 100,000 members throughout the United States. Elose Willis served as Secretary of Local 938,...
Topics: covid-19, coronavirus, coronavirus poutry workers
Dj Vu All Over Again: Warning! Warning! COVID-19 Presents Enhanced Danger for Nations African American Communities with Dr. Donald Moore, a full-time general medicine practitioner, distinguishing for his service to his community and to his profession and who teaches medical students from Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and nurse practitioner students from New York University and Hunter College Nursing Schools. He is a board member of the New York Metro chapter of Physicians for a...
Topics: coronavirus African-Americans, Black Lives Matter
Amazon’s plans to smear a warehouse worker who was fired after organizing a protest over the lack of coronavirus protection for 5000 workers was racist and classist, illegal and “immoral” says New York’s Attorney General calling for a federal investigation of Chris Small’s termination. with Chris Smalls, terminated Amazon worker/organizer and Derrick Palmer, protesting Amazon warehouse worker Chris Smalls a warehouse fulfillment center worker for Amazon, the third richest company in...
Topics: Amazon warehouse workers, Amazon Chris Smalls, Amazon coronavirus
Immigrant and migrant workers call for financial assistance and to STOP the attacks on their human rights, which have actually stepped-up during this deadly pandemic! with Cal Soto, Director of and attorney for Workers Rights of the National Day Laborers Organizing Network (NDLON). Cal joined NDLON from LatinoJustice, where he launched the Rights Restoration Project and now partners with NDLON’s local worker leaders and labor centers using his legal training to add to the capacity and...
Topics: coronavirus immigrants, coronavirus migrant workers, coronavirus
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** Global Days of Action, Arming Ourselves to Disarm Military Spending with Lindsay Koshgarian, Program Director of the National Priorities Project, at the Institute for Policy Studies, where she works on analysis of the federal...
Topics: Military spending, sexual harassment, Harvey Weinstein
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** Free After 42 Years For A Crime The State Knows Delbert Africa Didn’t Commit! with Delbert Africa, political prisoner, 42 years, member of the Move 9 and Dan Thomson, works at the People’s Law Office as a civil rights and...
Topics: Move 9. Delbert Africa, Mumia Abu-Jamal
Claims that the ‘NAFTA 2’ agreement is better is a macabre joke! with Peter Dolack, organizer against NAFTA and so-called “free trade” agreements with Trade Justice New York Metro, a coalition that helped organize the struggle that defeated the Trans-Pacific Partnership. He regularly writes about the ongoing economic crisis, and the environmental and political issues connected to it, on the Systemic Disorderblog , and his writings have appeared CounterPunch, Z Magazine, The...
Topics: NAFTA 2, US Mexico Canada Agreement, Peter Dolack
President Trump's Peace Plan Is the Latest in a Century of Outrageous Deals for the Palestinians with Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and author of The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine. Dr. Khalidi talks about how once again, a tawdry deal has been done over the heads of the Palestinians, in their absence, and ignoring their rights – indeed their very existence as a people. As with the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and UN Security...
Topics: Rashid Khalidi, Deal of the Century, Trump Israel, Trump Palestine
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** Claims that the ‘NAFTA 2’ agreement is better is a macabre joke! with Peter Dolack, organizer against NAFTA and so-called “free trade” agreements with Trade Justice New York Metro, a coalition that helped organize the...
Topics: NAFTA 2, U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement, Peter Dolack
Which Of The 2020 Candidates Is A Friend Of The Workers? with Shaun Richman, Program Dir. of the Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor Studies at SUNY Empire State College. . Wage growth is weak for a tight labor market—and the pace of wage growth is uneven across race and gender. . Wage growth is being held back by political decisions and the Trump administration is on the wrong side of key debates. . Working people have been thwarted in their efforts to bargain for better wages by...
Topics: Presidential Candidates, labor issues, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg
ReVisioning American History: an intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx and Peoples’ civil rights with Paul Ortiz, professor of history and director of the Oral History Program at the University of Florida. He is the author of Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920 and An African American and Latinx History of the United States An...
Topics: Paul Ortiz, black lives matter, Latinx
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** How Propaganda Manufactures Consent - A Forum Presented by the Big Apple Coffee Party with Max Blumenthal, award-winning author and journalist and founder of the independent news website, The Greyzone and Margaret Kimberley,...
Topics: propaganda, Max Blumenthal, Aaron Mate. Margaret Kimberley
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** "What's Going On" Marvin Gaye! On Building Bridges first broadcast day back we took to the streets again and bring you more of the live sounds of people in motion, this time as we covered the Veteran’s Day...
Topics: Veterans Day NYC, Veterans Day NYC Trump, Veterams
It’s A Matter of Life & Death: Environmental Racism & Its Assault On The American Mind with Harriet A. Washington, has been a research fellow in medical ethics at Harvard Medical School, a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University, and a visiting scholar at DePaul University College of Law. She has held fellowships at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Stanford University. She is the author of Deadly Monopolies, Infectious...
Topics: environmental racism, Harriet Washington
Analyzing Bernie Sanders’ Workplace Democracy Plan with Shaun Richman is an In These Times contributing writer and the Program Director of the Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor Studies at SUNY Empire State College. Senator Bernie Sanders has announced his Workplace Democracy Plan to build worker power on the job by protecting unionizing and strikes by workers. In many ways it goes back to the intent of New Deal Legislation which have been seriously weakened over the years by right...
Topics: Bernie Sanders unions, Bernie Sanders Work Place Democracy Plan, Shaun Richman Bernie Sanders
It’s A Matter of Life & Death: Environmental Racism & Its Assault On The American Mind with Harriet A. Washington, has been a research fellow in medical ethics at Harvard Medical School, a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University, and a visiting scholar at DePaul University College of Law. She has held fellowships at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Stanford University. She is the author of Deadly Monopolies, Infectious...
Topics: Harriet Washington, environmental racism
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** The Making of a Democratic Economy with Ted Howard, co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative, and Marjorie Kelly, author of The Divine Right of Capital, and Owning our Future have teamed up to co-author The Making of a...
Topics: Democracy Collaborative, worker cooperatives, cooperatives, workplace democracy
Striking Auto Workers Need and Deserve to Win Big! with JR Baker, President of Power Train Engine UAW Local 774 in Tonawanda, NY and Mike Elk, Senior Labor Reporter and founder of Payday Report and Nelson Lichtenstein, director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy at the University of California Anyone who understands the need for the United States to reduce its stratospheric levels of economic inequality and to give its workers a boost into the middle class has to be...
Topics: GM strike, UAW GM strike, auto workers strike GM
The New York Youth Strike for Climate Justice Four million protesters around the globe, led by youth, declared the time has come for action on climate change. Two hundred and fifty thousand marched and rallied in New York and we’re Building Bridges to those exuberant youth activists who led the way, and we all—young and old and everywhere in between—followed. We’re building bridges and fighting alongside the student leaders of the US Youth Climate Strike, the organizers of the...
Topics: global warming, climate change, Greta Thunberg, climate strike
We Don’t Have a Working Democracy. So What Happened and How Do We Fix It: Hey Whose Really Been Stealing the Votes? with Greg Palast, America’s wittiest (and wickedest) muckraker. An award-winning Guardian investigative journalist, he is causing crooked election officials all over the country to shiver in their shoes as they wait for a knock on their door from the FBI – thanks to his explosive exposes. Palast, is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, Billionaires & Ballot...
Topics: Greg Palast, vote theft, U.S. elections voter suppression, Stacey Abrams
Update on I mmigrant Workers Terrorized in Mississippi ICE Workplace Raids with Marely Lopez, daughter of an immigrant worker family victimized by the Mississippi ICE raids who talks about the impact of this assault on herself, her family and her community now and in the future. and Bill Chandler, Executive Director of the Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance, and Luis Espinoza, Central Mississippi Community Organizer Media throughout the country reported that while Trump was forcing...
Topics: mississippi workplace raids, Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance, immigration, ICE raids
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** Putting the Movement Back into the Union Movement with Sara Nelson, President of the Association of Flight Attendants who denounced Trump’s government shutdown for endangering airline security and forcing workers to labor...
Topics: Sara Nelson Association of Flight Attendants, Judy Sheridan Gonzalez NYS Nurses Association, Bianca...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** All about ‘Medicare for All’ and Can it Provide Universal Access to Health Care! with Donald E. Moore, MD, is a primary care physician and is on the Board of Directors of the NY Metro Chapter of Physicians for a National...
Topics: Medicare for All, Senator Bernie Sanders, Physicians for a National Health Plan, New York State...
Reminiscent of Apartheid South Africa Trump and Netanyahu Form Unholy Alliance to Silence Rep. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaibs Support of the Nonviolent Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Movement in Support of Palestinian People! with Ali Albunimah, Co-founder of The Electronic Intifada and author of The Battle for Justice in Palestine In a moving press conference, Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar stood defiantly against the Israeli governments attempts to repress and silence them. They used...
Topics: Representative Rashida Tlaib, Representative Ilhan Omar, Ali Albunimah The Electronic Intifada,...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** Immigrant Workers Terrorized in Mississippi Raids By Trump’s ICE While He Grandstands in El Paso After “Triggering” White Nationalist Massacre! with Bill Chandler, Executive Director, Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance...
Topics: mississippi ICE raids, Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance, ICE workplace raids Mississippi
Building Bridges : Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** “Ona Move” - we welcome home Janet Africa & Janine Africa, after 41 years, and won’t rest until all our political prisoners are free at last! with . sheros Janet Africa & Janine Africa, finally returned to the...
Topics: Thr MOVE 7, Janet and Janine Africa, Mumia Abu Jamal
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Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** Labor is Raising the Roof in Nashville with Chris Brooks, Staff Writer and Organizer with Labor Notes magazine and Odessa Kelly, Nashville Organized for Action and Hope and Co-Chair of Stand Up Nashville and Anne...
Topics: Nashville unions, Standup Nashville, Chris Brooks Labor Notes, Wayfair workers strike for immigrants
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** Finally N.Y. State’s Farmworkers Prevail Over State’s Harvest of Shame with Jessica Ramos, N . Y . S Senator , Chair of Labor Committee and Jose Chapa , Justice for Farmworkers Legislative Campaign Coordinator, Rural...
Topics: nys farmworkers unions, Jessica Ramos NYS Senate, Jose Chapa Justice for Farmworkers, Farmworker...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner: Armaments and Conflict in the Middle East with Mohamad Bazzi, journalism professor at New York University, a former Middle East bureau chief at Newsday and a former Council on Foreign Relations...
Topics: U.S. and Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, Mohamad Bazzi Yemen and Iran
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** The Centerfold of Trump’s Reelection Campaign is About Ginning Up Hate & the Politics of Xenophobia! with Muzaffar Chishti , Director of the Migration Policy Institute at New York University School of Law, whose work...
Topics: Trump mass deportations, Trump immigration, Muzaffar Chishti, Trump refugees, Tom Saenz
Reverend Barber on the Poor People's Campaign and social change
Topic: Reverend William Barber
American Airlines Mechanics Are Threatening the “Bloodiest, Ugliest Battle” in Labor History with John Samuelsen, President, Transport Workers Union Mechanics at American Airlines are threatening to strike if a new contract isn’t negotiated, and the union president has declared that employees are prepared for the dispute to erupt. TWU president John Samuelsen confronted American Airlines president Robert Isom and told him that the union was prepared to strike. “I stand here to...
Topics: TWU American Airlines, John Samuelson American Airlines, Transport Workers Union American Airlines
Trump’s Mexico tariffs were always about white nationalism, and pose an incendiary threat to an imaginary border crisis, but they may also be about gaining leverage against Mexico and the Democrats seeking modifications in the upcoming USMCA trade agreement with Laura Carlsen, head of the Center for International Policy’s Americas Project in Mexico City and Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) in Washington, D.C. and President of Just Foreign...
Topics: Trump Mexico Tariffs, Trump Central America, Refugees, Mexico Central america Refugees, Lopez...
Will we allow Sudan's military and their allies, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to crush the peoples movement for democracy? with Milton Allimadi, Prof. of African History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and founder of The Black Star News In scenes redolent of the Arab world's 2011 pro-democracy uprisings, an emboldened grass-roots protest movement had taken root in the heart of Sudan, its center, Khartoum, when the dreaded Janjaweed militia opened fire on the unarmed,...
Topics: Milton Allimdi Sudan, Black Star News, Sudan protests, Sudan military, Omar Hassan al-Bashir Sudan,...
Building Bridges National Produced by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash Grand Theft Pentagon: How It Steals from Our Nations Resources to Feed its Monster Wars! Bill Hartung, Director of the Arms & Security Project at the Center for International Policy, Jan R. Weinberg, Show Up! America, & Divest From The War Machine Coalition/CodePink and Christine Lewis, Domestic Workers United discuss how the war economy drains our resources , and ways we can get active to turn it around, such as...
Topics: Bill Hartung, CodePink, military-industrial complex, Move the Money, War and Peace, military budget
Building Bridges : Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** High Voltage Women: Breaking Barriers at Seattle City Light, with Ellie Belew novelist and community historian gave me been a wonderful read with High Voltage Women: Breaking Barriers at Seattle City Light, telling the story of...
Topics: Radical Women, Freedom Socialists, High Voltage Women, affirmative action Seattle, Ellie Belew,...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** Putting the Movement Back into the Labor Movement with Nelson Lichtenstein is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy. He is a...
Topics: Samantha Winslow, Nelson Lichtenstein, Labor Notes, labor movement, Samantha Winslow, Labor Notes,...
Building Bridges National Edition Produced by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash U.S. Hands Off Venezuela!: Special Report from Venezuela on May Day with William Camacaro, of the NYC Bolivarian Circle reporting from the barrios of Venezuela, where he has brought a delegation of U.S. people to observe the situation on the ground and deliver to the Venezuelan people the message that ‘we the people’ oppose the U.S. Government’s empire aggression and intervention. While Venezuela’s economic...
Topics: Juan Guaido Venezuela, Venezuela coup, Venezueala may day, Venezuela U.S. imperialism, Nicolás...
Building Bridges Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg This is the right time to talk about why we need a new economic system and how to get there. This is the time to talk about and build socialism here and around the world . To meld practice and theory on this question are Zwelinzima Vavi, General Secretary, of the South African Federation of Trade Unions (“SAFTU”), founded in 2017, and which is the second largest of the country’s main trade union confederations , with at least 21...
Topics: Zwelinzima Vavi, South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU), Gar Alperovitz, Democracy...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** Growing Nuclear Risks in a Changing World: New Thinking and Movement Building with Joseph Gerson who serves as AFSC’s disarmament coordinator, as director of programs in New England, and as director of the Peace and Economic Security Program. Joseph plays a leading role in building collaborations among...
Topics: nuclear disarmament treaty, nuclear war Trump, nuclear arms race, Joe Gerson AFSC
ICE Terrorizes Immigrant Women Workers, Arresting More Than 280 in Largest Workplace Raid in a Decade, Leaving Families and Communities Devastated! with Felix Villalobos, Managing Attorney, RAICES, the largest immigration legal services provider in Texas. and Maria Yolisma Garcia, President, North Texas Dream Team More than 280, predominantly women, immigrant workers were detained after a workplace raid on an electronics repair company in Texas. The raid was the largest since Trump took...
Topics: Jeff Halper Israeli elections, ICE workplace raid Texas
RIP Medical Debt! As medical costs rise to unspeakable levels, so does un-payable medical debt, but we can stop the hemorrhaging and save the patient. with Co-Founder and Director/Education and Outreach RIP Medical Debt Jerry Aston and comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host John Oliver Medical debt has destroyed the financial stability of large segments of Americas most vulnerable communities: the sick, the elderly, the poor, and veterans. It also...
Topics: Medical debt, Jerry Aston medical debt, RIP Medical Debt, healthcare, Medicare for all
Building Bridges over WBAI Radio, 99.5FM with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Mon., April 1, 2019, 7 - 8 pm EST **************************** "Let Them Eat Cake" Says Social Services Giant, CAMBA’s $484,000 A Year CEO, Joanne Oplustil, To Workers Who Have To Go On Food Stamps To Take Parental Leave! with striking Camba Legal Service (“CLS”) Workers Forced to the picket-line and chanting “no contract, no peace, overworked and over stressed - working at...
Topics: Camba Legal Services Union, DC 1707 pre-school teachers protest, Prof. Milton Allimadi, Cyclone...
Its a Matter of Life and Death: Thousands of New York Nurses Take to the Street In Threat of Major Strike Over Horrendous Working Conditions Which Seriously Impedes Patient Care with Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez, RN , NYSNA President, Montefiore Medical Center and Karine Raymond, RN NYSNA .Second Vice President, Montefiore Medical Center The 42,000 strong members of the New York State Nurses Association have been fighting for safe staffing, to keep hospitals open for care, to stop the Wall Street...
Topics: New York State Nurses Association, NYSNA, Safe Staffing Nurses, Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez NYSNA
Spectrum Cable Strikers At Two Year Mark Keep On Keeping On & Are Even Looking Into Forming A Workers' Cooperative To Take Over The Cable Franchise with Troy Walcott, Local 3 IBEW Shop Steward and striking Spectrum Technician and Ray Reyes, striking Spectrum technician Some 1,800 workers represented by International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, (“IBEW”), Local 3 struck Charter Spectrum Communications (“Spectrum”) , the company which bought out Time Warner Cable in May...
Topics: Local 3 IBEW, Charter Spectrum union busting, Cuomo Charter Spectrum, de Blasio Charter Spectrum,...
It’s a Matter of Life and Death: Thousands of New York Nurses Take to the Street In Threat of Major Strike Over Horrendous Working Conditions Which Seriously Impedes Patient Care with Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez, RN , NYSNA President, Montefiore Medical Center and NYSNA members The 42,000 strong members of the New York State Nurses Association have been fighting for safe staffing, to keep hospitals open for care, to stop the Wall Street attack on their patients, and win healthcare for...
Topics: NYS Nurses Association Safe Staffing, Spectrum strike cooperatives
Building Bridges National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash Israel's War Against the Palestinians and It's Exportation of Weapons of Global Pacification with Jeff Halper, is the head of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and a Nobel Peace Prize nominee. He is the author of War Against the People: Israel, The Palestinians and Global Pacification We the people must break the old taboo on US-Israeli relations and Washington's permanent acquiescence in Israel's illegal...
Topics: Jeff Halper Israel and Palestine, Jeff Halper weapons, Jeff Halper policing
Daniel Ellsberg responds to the unjust jailing of whistleblower Chelsea Manning Daniel Ellsberg, the most important whistle-blower of the 20 th century, whose exposure of government lying and whose courage and sacrifice to reveal that truth to the public worked to end the heinous war in Viet Nam talks about one of the greatest whistle-blowers of the 21 st century, Chelsea Manning who paid dearly for her expose of government lies in Afghanistan, Iraq and torture in Guantanamo and served 7...
Topics: Daniel Ellsberg, Chelsea Manning, whistleblowers, freedom of the press
The Politics of Immigration with Jane Guskin and David L. Wilson have been writing since 1990 about immigration, labor, and Latin America and the Caribbean. Their articles have appeared in Truthout, NACLA Report on the Americas, MRZine, The Huffington Post , and other publications. For over twenty years, they co-edited Weekly News Update on the Americas, an English-language bulletin covering grassroots news from Latin America. Guskin also edited a companion publication , Immigration News...
Topics: Politics of Immigration, Jane Guskin and David L. Wilson, Trump immigration, Trump wall,...
“U.S. HANDS OFF VENEZUELA!” . Maria Luísa Mendonça, director of the Network for Social Justice and Human Rights in Brazil . Kevin Zeese, a lawyer and political activist who currently serves as co-director of Popular Resistance . Roger Wareham, Secretary General of the International Association Against Torture and member of the December 12 th Movement " There is a great provocation led by the U.S. empire now in Venezuela. There's no doubt the world that it's President...
Topics: Venezuela U.S. coup, Maduro coup, Trump Venezuela coup, Venezuela economic sanctions Trump,...
No to U.S. Orchestrated Coup in Venezuela! No to Trump Imbuing Himself with the Power to Decide the Leader of a Sovereign Country! WHERE ARE THE DEMOCRATS? with Marc Weisbrot, is co-director with Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and is President of Just Foreign Policy, a non-governmental organization dedicated to reforming United States foreign policy. and Kevin Zeese, a lawyer and political activist who has worked on a wide range of issues beginning with ending the...
Topics: Venezuela U.S. coup, Maduro coup, Trump Venezuela coup, Venezuela economic sanctions Trump
We Are The Ones We’ve Been Waiting For: Federal Workers Don’t Have To Be The Sacrificial Lambs for Trump’s Political Hijinks to Fund His Wall! with Hector Figueroa, President, Local 32BJ, SEIU "Almost a million workers are locked out or being forced to work without pay. Others are going to work when our workspace is increasingly unsafe. What is the Labor Movement waiting for? Go back with Fierce Urgency of NOW to talk with your Locals and International unions about ...
Topics: Hector Figueroa government shutdown, Hector Figueroa immigration reform, Trump government shutdown,...
The Revolutionary Martin Luther King: Confronting the Triple Evils of Racism, Wealth Inequality, Militarism! Stone monuments and tributes can’t adequately commemorate the Rev. Martin Luther King. Genuine recognition of the man requires that we resolve to carry on his legacy of resistance to discrimination, the widening wealth divide, and war. Amidst terrible...
Topics: Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Ruby Sales Rev. King, Dr. Clayborne Carson
Gender/Race & Poverty in America: How the politics of welfare makes us sick and tired of being sick and tired! Whatever Fannie Lou Hamer was talking about soon became an impassioned plea for a change in the system that exploited the Delta’s African-Americans. “All my life I’ve been sick and tired,” she shakes her head. “Now I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.” Fannie Lou Hamer (1917 – 1977) who stood tall against the brutality, indignities,...
Topics: Gender poverty, women poverty, race poverty, Felicia Kornbluh poverty, welfare reform
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** The Criminalization of Poverty in America with Professor Peter Edelman, policy maker, and law professor at Georgetown University Law Center, specializing in the fields of poverty, welfare, juvenile justice, and constitutional law...
Topics: The Criminalization of Poverty in America, Peter Edelman, Poverty U.S., Bail bonds
Our Time Is Now! Que Viva Puerto Rico Libre! with members of El Frente Independentista Boricua, former political prisoners Oscar Lpez Rivera, and Alicia & Lucy Rodriquez In accordance with the Puerto Rico crisis, El Frente and affiliated organizations called for the dismantling of the corrupt government in Puerto Rico and the start of the decolonization process in the island. Chanting, our time is NOW! QUE VIVA PUERTO RICO LIBRE! Hundreds marched to the United Nations to ask the United...
Topics: puerto rico independence, puerto rico United Nations, Oscar Lopez Rivera, puerto rico libre
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** The Making of a Democractic Economy Part 2 with Ted Howard, co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative, and Marjorie Kelly, author of "The Divine Right of Capital", and "Owning our Future" have teamed up to...
Topics: Democracy Collaborative, worker cooperatives, Making of a Democratic Economy, Ted Howard, Marjorie...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** Immigrants Are Welcome Here! Abolish ICE, Stop Deportations, Shut Detention Centers, Close the Camps, Release the Detainees NOW! with immigrant/migrant families and their supporters – the participants in the “Lights for...
Topics: Lights of Liberty, NYC Immigration Rally, Trump Immigration Policy, Trump Refugees, Ravi Ragbar
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** The Workers' Advice Center (WAC), A New Unionism Developing in Israel After a Decade of Organizing Palestinian Workers in the West Bank Settlements with Assaf Adiv is National Coordinator of the independent union WAC-Maan . He...
Topics: Workers Advice Center, Assaf Adiv, unions West Bank, Unions Palestine
The Revolutionary King: MLK’s The Three Evils of Society, "the sickness of racism, excessive materialism and militarism" and his prophetic work then for the path forward today! with Dr. Clayborne Carson, African American professor of history at Stanford University, and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute. Since 1985 he has directed the Martin Luther King Papers Project, a long-term project to edit and publish the papers of Martin Luther King,...
Topics: Clayborne Carson, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education...
Free John White: A Building Bridges exclusive with the recently convicted John White, attorney Frederick Brewington, Minister Kevin Mohammed, and the Rev. Al Sharpton directly from the mass support rally for John White at the Suffolk County Criminal Court Building(28:17) The right to protect one's home and family is as American as apple pie - or is it when it comes to African-Americas? The recent conviction for manslaughter in Suffolk County of John White, who awoke to find a mob of white...
Topics: civil rights, judicial misconduct, Rev, Al Sharpton, Suffolk County
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** Teachers Take the Lessons of the Classrooms to the Streets from West Virginia to Arizona and now Colorado with . Joselyn Palomino, Denver High School Teacher of Mexican-American Literature . Cat Berrett, English teacher at Phoenix Union High School District The victorious wildcat strike in W. Virginia ushered in a new wave of teacher and state...
Topics: West Virginia teachers strike, Arizona teachers mobilize, teachers Colorado protest Arizona...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Building Trades Activists Break Mold in Protest of Trump with Gretchen Newsom, Political Director, IBEW Local 569, San Diego Building Trades activists from Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 569 knew they had to do something. âWe couldnât let him come and speak to us and just sit there,â said William Stedham, an executive board member of the local. âIf we...
Topics: Trump unions, Trump construction unions, Gretchen Newsom IBEW Trump, Spectrum cable strike, Local 3...
